TiPEL-SIG Program at AACP Meeting in San Antonio

iPads, Twitter, Google Sites, and Next-Gen Distance Learning: Interactive Technologies for Active Student Engagement
Jude A. Higdon, Nichole M. Kulinski, Amy L. Pittenger, Christene M. Jolowsky


In this session, several projects utilizing collaborative tools will be described for experiential, classroom-based, and research applications, including an iPad evaluation, social networking, "next generation" student response technology, web-based collaborative writing tools and a range of distance learning strategies for engaging learners. Program will include active participation and panel discussion.


During this session, learners will:
• Identify ways in which our students found iPads helpful -- and not helpful -- to their learning activities
• Articulate ways in which social tools, in particular Twitter, may be used to help build scholarly community among students
• Learn about and engage with emerging, cloud-based, device-neutral student response systems such as ChimeIn
• Explore the use of web-building sites such as Google Sites as a way for health professional students to demonstrate content mastery
• Describe how collaborative writing with tools such as PB works can enhance learning
• Identify techniques for engaging distance learners

Tuesday, July 12

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Grand Hyatt San Antonio

Lone Star Ballroom, Salon C; Floor 2

Continuing Education credit will be available

Inkling iPad Textbook

I was recently given the opportunity to review a chapter of the upcoming 8th edition of "Pharmacotherapy:  A Pathophysiologic Approach" on the Inkling platform for iPad.   I was quite impressed.


There is a video demonstration of Inkling on the iPad at All Things D.   


What do you think about the idea of students having textbooks on the iPad?   "Wave of the future" or "flash in the pan"?


Gary Theilman, Pharm.D.
University of Mississippi  

TiPEL SIG Webinars

During my year as chair of the TiPEL SIG, I have not utilized this blog as much as I intended, but better late than never. By now, you should have received email notifications of the TiPEL SIG Webinar series. This series was developed for 2 primary reasons.

1. To provide leadership in the use of webinar technologies to the rest of the Academy.
2. In addition to the annual meeting, to provide members of the Academy with additional learning opportunities regarding teaching, learning, and technology.

I tasked a small workgroup to develop and implement the series. They have put a lot of time and effort into it and deserve some recognition. Those individuals are:
Tracy Chapman, Creighton
Jude Higdon, Minnesota
Mark Smith, New Mexico
Eric Wombwell, Missouri-Kansas City

Also, Allan Lee from AACP was instrumental on the technical "back-end" of the webinars and provided vital assistance.

Please take advantage of these seminars and if you have any questions with regard to how your SIG or Section might effectively use webinars for something similar, please contact me or any of the work group members.

Jeff Cain, EdD, MS
Adjunct Associate Professor
Director of Education Technology
University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy
jeff.cain@uky.edu
(859) 257-4429

What are your experiences with Web 2.0?

What successes, failures, challenges, and enablers can you share?

We are in Boston, a city known for...

... its ties to revolutionary and liberating activities. What do you think about Web 2.0 - is it/can it be evolutionary, revolutionary, or a collosal waste of time?

Your perception of Web 2.0

Tell us what you think. What is this thing called "Web 2.0"?

New TiPEL SIG Officers and Meeting Update

Please join me in welcoming Jeff Cain (Kentucky) and Tracy Chapman (Creighton) as our Chair-elect and Secretary, respectively. Jeff will serve a one year term as Chair-elect from 7/09 to 7/10. He will then serve as Chair from 7/10 to 7/11. Tracy will serve as Secretary for two years (7/09 to 7/11). Both will be installed at Mondays' SIG business meeting. I look forward to their leadership.

As the Annual Meeting sneaks up, I wanted to let you know about programming that may be of interest to you.

Saturday 7/18

8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Teachers Seminar: Technology in Teaching

Sunday 7/19

6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.
Topical Roundtable I - E-Portfolios throughout the Pharmacy Curriculum, Innovation in Teaching: Use of Blogs as a Learning Tool, Mentoring Distance Faculty, School/College of Pharmacy Personal Computers Requirements for Professional Pharmacy Students: Necessary and/or Advisable in 2009?

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Opening General Session

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Libraries/Educational Resources Section: Innovations in Teaching: Curricular Integration of Information Competencies for Students and Preceptors at Remote Sites

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Special Session: E-Health Leadership Strategies for Pharmacy Vision 2015

Monday 7/20

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Topical Roundtable II - A You Tube Discovery Learning Project, Educating the Next Generation of Pharmacy Students: Early Experience with Virtual Learning in Second Life at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, E-Portfolios in the Pharm.D. Curriculum: Sharing Best Practices for Administration and Review, Social Networks in MTM, Using New Social Media for Pharmacy Student Recruitment and Alumni Engagement

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Technology in Phamacy Education and Learning SIG: Technology Use to Facilitate Student Learning in the Clinical Years: Examples of Success and Failure

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Blended Learning: Making the Most of Online and Face-to-Face Instruction

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Technology in Phamacy Education and Learning SIG: Business Meeting

Tuesday 7/21

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Special Session: Web 2.0, Health 2.0, and Pharmacy Education: Opportunities for Pharmacy Educators to Reach Millennial Students

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Reflective and progressive E-portfolio: Longitudinal Documentation and Reflection upon Professional Development and Ability-based Outcomes Achievement

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Ethical and Legal Issues Regarding New Social Media (Facebook, Blogs, Wikipedia, etc.) and Pharmacy Education

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Special Session: Novel Methods of IPPE Instruction Delivery

Wednesday 7/22

10:30 a.m. - Noon
Special Session: Intervention Databases: A Tool for Documenting Student Learning and Clinical Value

Hope to see you there.
Brent